Women's Resource/Returning Adult Program

Assistance with tuition, textbooks, and transportation is
available to students who belong to one of these special
populations. Income guidelines and other eligibility
criteria apply. According to federal guidelines, those with
the greatest financial need will have priority. Michigan
Department of Energy, Labor, and Economic Growth, Community
College Services Unit, provides funds for this program. This
grant is intended to assist students in occupational
programs.

To qualify, you must fit one of these descriptions and
provide documentation?

Non-traditional career trainee
Women and men who wish to seek employment in occupations
that traditionally have been underrepresented by their
sex.

Individual with Limited English Proficiency
An adult who has limited ability in speaking, reading,
writing, or understanding English and whose native
language is not English.

Individual with a disability
Individual who has a documented disability related to
hearing, speech, vision, learning, mobility, psychiatric
function or substance abuse or who has documented
health-related impairments such as diabetes, epilepsy,
heart disease, cancer, multiple sclerosis, muscular
dystrophy, hemophilia or is HIV positive.

Academically disadvantaged
An individual whose assessment scores indicate a need for
skill development in reading, writing and/or math, who
has less than a 2.0 grade point average, or who has
multiple withdrawals or drops.

Single pregnant woman

Single parent
A parent who

(a) is unmarried (i.e., divorced, widowed, or never
married) or separated or legally separated from a spouse
and

(b) has a minor child or children for which the parent has
either custody or joint custody.

Homemaker
An adult who has worked primarily without pay to care for
the home and family, has diminished marketable skills,
and is unemployed or underemployed.

Displaced homemaker
A homemaker, unemployed or underemployed, who:

(a) has been dependent on the income of a relative but is
no longer supported by such income, or

(b) because of divorce, separation, or the death or
disability of a spouse must prepare for paid employment,
or

(c) has been dependent on public assistance but is no
longer supported by such income or is within two years
of being ineligible for it.